Prokesch

Steve Prokesch, associate editor, Harvard Business Review who solicited our 1994 article and provided perspective on lean thinking

Lean Thinking James P. Womack 2003

General Prokesch d'Osten with a good deal of gesticulation.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various

As soon as Prokesch begins to read them, the Prince stops him with the words: “Je déchire.”

Georges Guynemer Bordeaux, Henry, 1870- 1918

In _L'Aiglon_ Prokesch brings the mail to the Prince Imperial, and handing him letters from women, he says:

Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air Henry Bordeaux 1916

As soon as Prokesch begins to read them, the Prince stops him with the words: "_Je déchire_."

Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air Henry Bordeaux 1916

Addressing himself, in 1871, to the Rumanian representative at the Porte, the Austrian ambassador, von Prokesch-Osten, remarked: 'If Prince Carol manages to pull through without outside help, and make Rumania governable, it will be the greatest _tour de force_ I have ever witnessed in my diplomatic career of more than half a century.

The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey Nevill Forbes 1906

Of Prokesch it is that Bismarck once writes: “As to his statements I do not know how much you will find to be Prokesch, and how much to be true.”

Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire Headlam, James W 1899

Prokesch afterwards officially admitted that the statement had been incorrect.

Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire Headlam, James W 1899

When his successor, Herr v. Prokesch, left Frankfort for Constantinople, he said that “it would be like an Eastern dream of the blessed to converse with the wise Ali instead of Bismarck.”

Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire Headlam, James W 1899

Great efforts have been made to convince a sceptical public that his early death was the result of youthful indiscretions, but this is stoutly denied by Prokesch, who declares that he was a strictly moral youth, and Baron Obenaus, in his diary, justifies this opinion, if there was nothing else to support it.

The Tragedy of St. Helena Walter Runciman 1892